Three truths
- Timed
- Branched off about 115 million years ago · the last 2.7% of life's story
- Named
- ≈1,100 named living species · 0.06% of all named
- Weighed
- Part of Plants (mostly land plants) (≈450 Gt C), not measured separately.
Eukaryotes · plants and algae · order
Oaks, beeches and birches
Fagales
Living · roughly 1,100 described species
An order of flowering plants that includes oaks (Quercus), beeches, birches and walnuts.
Oaks, beeches, birches and walnuts.
Key characteristics
- Mostly trees and shrubs
- Many are wind-pollinated
- Oak acorns and beech nuts are major food for wildlife
- Habitat
- Mostly temperate forests
- Branched off
- About 115 million years ago (approximate)
- Parent lineage
- Rosids
Classification
- First common ancestor (LUCA)
- › Archaea
- › Asgard archaea
- › Heimdall and complex-cell line
- › Complex cells (eukaryotes)
- › Diaphoretickes
- › Algae and plants
- › Green plants
- › Streptophytes
- › Land plants
- › Vascular plants
- › Euphyllophytes
- › Seed plants
- › Flowering plants
- › Core flowering plants
- › Eudicots
- › Rosids
- › Oaks, beeches and birches
Sources
- Fagales (Wikipedia) · Wikipedia
- TimeTree: the timescale of life · TimeTree
- Open Tree of Life · Open Tree of Life
- Tree of Life Web Project · Tree of Life Web Project